free market

Example Sentences

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Paradoxically, the union has embraced the principles of Adam Smith: Let the free market work.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Armstrong, and others in the crypto world, say the free market should reign and that banks can simply pay higher interest rates to compete with stablecoins or get into the stablecoin business themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

The free market produced unprecedented growth in U.S. oil and gas production and exports.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

So the advisory firms arose from a free market to offer them analysis.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 9, 2026

Private enterprise was supposed to build an industrial duty-free port in Bolivia Mar. Thus far the free market has not accepted the challenge.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann